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THE  LAWS 


PUBLISHED  JANUARY,  1867. 


THE  LAWS 


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HAMILTON  COLLEGE. 


PUBLISHED  JANUARY,  1861. 


UTICA,  N.  Y. 

D.  P.  WHITE,  PRINTER,  171  GENESEE  STREET. 

1867. 


LAWS  OF  HAMILTON  COLLEGE. 


CHAPTEK  1. 

OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 

§ 1.  The  Government  of  the  College  is  vested  in 
the  President,  Professors  and  Tutors,  and  is  styled  the 
Faculty  of  the  College. 

§ 2.  A regular  meeting  of  the  Faculty  is  held  on 
Thursday  morning  of  each  week.  The  President  at  his 
discretion,  has  authority  to  appoint  a special  meeting. 
All  matters  to  be  referred  to  the  Faculty,  shall  be 
brought  before  such  meetings,  and  be  determined  by  the 
major  part  of  the  members  present. 

CHAPTEK  II. 

OF  ADMISSION  INTO  COLLEGE. 

§ 1.  No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  the  Freshman 
Class,  until  he  has  completed  his  fourteenth  year ; nor  to 
an  advanced  standing,  without  a proportionate  increase 
of  age.  The  terms  for  admission  into  this  Class,  will  be 
found  from  time  to  time  on  the  College  Catalogue. 

§ 2.  No  candidate  for  advanced  standing  shall  be 
received,  unless  he  shall  be  found  qualified  in  the  studies 
pursued  by  the  class  which  he  proposes  to  join,  or  in 
branches  equivalent  thereto.  No  one  shall  be  admitted 
to  the  Senior  Class  after  the  close  of  the  Winter  Vacation. 


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§ 3.  The  under-graduate  Students  are  divided  into 
four  classes.  The  first  year,  they  shall  he  called  Fresh- 
men; the  second,  Sophomores;  the  third,  Juniors,  and 
the  fourth,  Seniors. 


CHAPTER  III. 

OF  DAILY  ATTENDANCE  IN  THE  CHAPEL,  AND  UPON  PUBLIC 

WORSHIP. 

§ 1.  Every  under-graduate  is  required  to  attend 
morning  and  evening  prayers,  unless  he  can  render  a 
reasonable  excuse  for  his  absence. 

§ 2.  Every  Student  is  required  to  attend  public  wor- 
ship in  the  chapel,  on  the  Sabbath,  unless  excused  in 
compliance  with  a written  request  from  his  parent  or 
guardian,  for  one  of  the  following  reasons  ; 

1st.  That  he  lives  in  or  near  the  town  of  Kirkland, 
and  is  therefore  expected  to  spend  the  Sabbath  with 
his  friends  at  home. 

2d.  That  he  is  connected  with  some  other  denomina- 
tion than  that  of  the  College  Church,  and  desires  to 
attend  its  place  of  worship  in  the  village  of  Clinton. 

3d.  That  his  services  are  desired  in  teaching  a Bible 
Class,  or  Sabbath  School  Class,  at  such  hours  as  preclude 
attendance  at  the  College  Chapel. 

§ 4th.  Whenever  such  an  application  shall  be  made,  a 
letter  shall  be  addressed  to  the  parent  or  guardian  of  the 
Student,  stating  the  arrangements  of  the  College  authori- 
ties in  regard  to  public  worship,  and  the  general  unde- 
sirableness of  making  exceptions  to  the  usual  rule,  unless 
there  be  cogent  reasons  for  the  same. 


CHAPTER  IY. 


OF  THE  COLLEGE  EXAMINATIONS. 

§ 1.  There  are  four  regular  examinations  during  the 
the  year ; one  at  the  close  of  each  term,  and  a final  ex- 
amination for  the  Seniors  during  the  eighth  week  of  the 
third  term.  Each  examination  embraces  the  studies  of 
the  term  during  which  it  is  held,  except  the  examination 
at  the  close  of  the  Senior  year,  which  includes  the  studies 
of  the  entire  year. 

§ 2.  Each  Student  is  required  to  pass  all  the  exami- 
nations, and  unless  excused  by  a special  vote  of  the 
Faculty,  is  expected  to  be  prepared  on  every  portion  of* 
the  studies  embraced  in  the  examination  of  the  class  to 
which  he  belongs.  All  text  books  ar$  excluded  from  the 
examination  room,  except  those  necessarily  used  by  the 
Student  while  under  examination.  The  order  of  exami- 
nation as  to  persons,  is  determined  by  lot,  to  be  publicly 
drawn  in  the  examination  room. 

§ 3.  Delinquents  at  any  regular  examination,  having 
been  excused  from  attending  the  same,  are  assigned  a 
separate  session  for  their  examination  on  the  delinquent 
studies,  immediately  previous  to  the  next  regular  exam- 
ination. 

§ 4.  Any  delinquent  in  actual  attendance,  who  fails 
without  assigning  a reason,  to  attend  delinquent  exam- 
ination, shall  be  charged  ten  marks  on  the  record,  and 
his  examination  shall  be  marked  on  the  merit  roll  as  a 
failure. 

§ 5.  No  Student  shall  be  dismissed  from  College 
without  a certificate  from  the  Registrar,  that  he  has 
passed  his  examinations,  unless  by  a special  vote  of  the 


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Faculty,  and  a certificate  from  the  Treasurer  that  his 
College  hills  are  paid,  or  satisfactorily  secured. 

CHAPTER  Y. 

OF  THE  MERIT  ROLL. 

In  estimating  the  scholarship  of  the  Students,  and 
determining  their  standing  in  their  respective  classes,  the 
following  rules  are  observed  : 

1st.  The  numerical  value  of  each  recitation  is  esti- 
mated by  a Scale,  on  which  10  stands  for  a perfect  reci- 
tation, 9 for  one  nearly  perfect,  and  so  on  down  to  a 
cypher  which  expresses  an  entire  failure. 

2d.  The  sum  of  the  figures  thus  given  to  each  Stu- 
dent for  the  year,  divided  by  the  number  of  exercises, 
gives  his  average  standing  for  the  year.  In  making  the 
average,  absences  which  are  unexcused.  enter  into  the 
divisor,  and  thus  lower  the  standing  of  the  Student. 
The  result  is  recorded  on  the  College  books.  The  sum 
of  all  the  Credits  given  to  any  Student  during  the  College 
course,  divided  by  the  whole  number  of  exercises,  ex- 
presses his  final  College  standing. 

3d.  Certain  exercises  are  regarded  as  having  more 
weight  than  a single  recitation.  These  are  as  follows  : 

1.  Declamation  in  chapel  is  equivalent  to  ten  Recita- 
tions. 

2.  A Class  Composition  or  Debate  is  equivalent  to  five 
Recitations. 

3.  A Chapel  Composition  is  equivalent  to  ten  Recita- 
tions. 

4.  A Report  of  a Sermon  is  equivalent  to  two  Reci- 
tations. 


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5.  A Chapel  Oration  is  equivalent  to  fifteen  Recita- 
tions. 

In  case  of  Chapel  Compositions  and  Essays,  where 
the  Student  has  performed  all  the  exercises  assigned  to 
him  for  any  year,  his  regularity  shall  he  counted  as  ten 
additional  Recitations.  Any  delinquency  in  Chapel 
Compositions  or  Orations,  whether  excused  or  not,  shall 
be  regarded  on  the  Merit  Roll  as  a failure,  without  a 
special  vote  of  the  Faculty  to  the  contrary.  An  appoint- 
ment as  Prize  Speaker  shall  be  equivalent  to  twenty 
Recitations,  marked  ten  each.  Performance  at  Junior 
Exhibition  is  equivalent  to  thirty  Recitations.  Each 
examination  in  any  study,  is  regarded  as  equal  to  ten 
Recitations. 

5.  Work  done  in  competition  for  any  one  of  the 
College  Prizes  shall  be  equivalent  to  twenty  Recitations, 
unless  its  numerical  value  falls  below  eight,  in  which  case 
no  estimate  shall  be  placed  on  record. 

5th.  At  the  close  of  the  Senior  year  of  each  class,  a 
graduated  scale  of  College  standing  is  given  out,  accor- 
ding to  which  the  class  is  divided  into  three  divisions,  as 
follows : 

All  whose  standing  is  seven  and  a half  or  above,  belong 
to  the  first  class,  and  are  regarded  as  of  the  first  grade 
of  scholarship.  All  who  come  up  to  five,  but  are  below 
seven  and  a half,  constitute  the  second  class,  and  belong 
to  the  second  grade  of  scholarship.  All  below  five  be- 
long to  the  third  class,  and  are  of  the  third  grade  of 
scholarship. 

Those  belonging  to  the  first  two  divisions,  are  ex- 
pected to  take  part  in  the  exercises  of  commencement 
day.  The  third  class  is  excluded  from  participating  in 
those  exercises. 


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6th.  Upon  the  standing  thus  made  up?  a system  of 
College  honors  sis  based.  All  in  the  second  division, 
shall  receive  an  appointment  for  Commencement  day, 
termed  a Dissertation,  and  shall  be  arranged,  as  far  as 
may  be,  alphabetically  in  their  divisions. 

Those  in  the  first  division,  with  the  exceptions  here" 
inafter  stated,  shall  receive  appointments  termed  Dis- 
putes, High  Orations,  Orations,  and  the  two  latter  shall 
be  arranged  alphabetically. 

From  those  holding  the  highest  rank  in  the  first  divis- 
ion, the  Faculty  may  in  their  discretion,  select  a certain 
number,  who  shall  receive  appointments  termed  Honors. 
These  appointments  shall  be  regarded  as  equal  in  rank, 
with  the  exception  of  the  Valedictory  and  Salutatory, 
which  shall  be  considered  as  the  first  and  second  ap- 
pointments, and  shall  be  given  to  the  first  and  second 
scholars  in  the  class.  In  order  to  recognize  peculiar  ex- 
cellence in  any  of  the  departments  of  College  instruction, 
an  honorary  appointment  may  be  designated  by  the 
name  of  such  department. 

Those  receiving  honorary  appointments  will  be  placed 
at  the  close  of  divisions  in  alphabetical  order. 

These  appointments  shall  be  announced  to  the  class  in 
the  fifth  week  of  the  third  term  of  the  Senior  year,  sub- 
ject to  change , if  by  taking  into  account  the  studies  of  the 
remainder  of  the  third  term  of  such  year,  the  standing 
of  the  Student  should  on  the  whole,  fall  below  or  rise 
above  the  grade  previously  assigned  to  him. 

7th.  When  the  Student  has  no  delinquent  examina- 
tions, he  can  call  upon  the  Registrar  for  his  division  stand- 
ing for  any  College  year,  at  the  commencement  of  the 
succeeding  year.  His  numerical  standing  will  be  given 


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to  him  at  the  close  of  the  third  term  of  Senior  year. 
No  Student  is  recommended  for  a degree,  whose  final  ex- 
amination falls  below  the  number  four. 

CHAPTER  VL 

OF  THE  PUBLIC  EXHIBITIONS,  AND  OF  GRADUATING. 

The  Public  Exhibitions  of  the  College  are  regulated 
by  the  following  rules  : 

1st.  Those  who  take  part  in  these  exhibitions  are 
permitted  to  speak  on  such  subjects  as  they  may  choose 
for  themselves,  with  the  advice  and  direction  of  the 
Professor  of  Rhetoric, 

2d.  No  Student  is  permitted  to  appear  in  any  public 
exhibition  of  his  class,  until  after  his  exercise  has  been 
examined  and  approved  by  the  Professor  of  Rhetoric. 

3d.  No  Student  is  permitted  to  alter  his  exercise 
after  it  has  been  examined,  or  in  any  way  to  deviate 
from  the  corrections  which  have  been  made.  A breach 
of  this  rule,  if  it  occur  at  commencement,  may  be  pun- 
ished by  withholding  the  diploma  of  graduation. 

4th.  The  names  of  the  speakers  on  Commencement 
day,  shall  be  arranged  on  the  principle  heretofore  indica- 
ted, in  divisions  of  four.  At  Junior  Exhibition , the 
names  of  the  class  shall  be  arranged  alphabetically  in 
divisions  of  like  number,  as  far  as  may  be,  and  a Com- 
mittee of  the  Faculty  shall  be  appointed  to  estimate  and 
report  the  merit  of  the  different  speakers. 

5th.  No  Student  is  permitted  to  take  part  in  the  ex- 
ercises of  Commencement  day,  who  does  not  spend  the 
third  term  of  Senior  year  in  College,  and  make  his 
preparation  here. 

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7th.  To  entitle  a student  to  be  graduated  he  must 
have  spent  two  terms  of  Senior  year  in  College,  and 
have  passed  the  final  examination.  He  must  also  have 
paid  his  dues  to  the  College  Treasurer,  and  be  personally 
present  unless  excused. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

OF  VACATIONS,  AND  OF  ABSENCE  FROM  COLLEGE. 

§ 1.  There  are  three  vacations  each  year.  The 
length  of  these  vacations  will  be  found  upon  the  yearly 
Catalogue. 

§ 2.  No  under-graduate  shall  be  allowed  to  remain 
in  the  College,  during  any  of  the  vacations,  without  per- 
mission. 

§ 3.  Upon  the  expiration  of  any  vacation,  the  Stu- 
dents are  expected  to  reassemble  at  College.  Absentees 
are  required  to  give  reasonable  excuses  for  their  delay. 

§ 4.  When  a Student  returns  to  College  during  the 
progress  of  the  term , he  is  expected  to  report  himself  at 
once  to  the  President  or  Class  Officer.  He  is  regarded 
from  the  time  of  his  return,  as  in  actual  attendance,  and 
as  liable  to  be  charged  as  other  Students  are.  Nor  can 
such  Student  omit  to  attend  any  one  of  the  exercises 
without  special  permission. 

§ 5.  When  a Student  applies  in  advance  to  any  Col- 
lege officer,  for  leave  to  be  absent  from  any  exercise,  he 
will,  if  excused  at  all,  be  excused  conditionally : that  is, 
the  Faculty  may  order  the  excuse  to  be  canceled,  if  there 
appears  to  be  good  reason  why  such  a course  should  be 
taken. 


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§ 6.  When  an  excuse  is  offered  for  past  absences,  it 
must  be  presented  in  writing,  and  signed  by  the  applicant, 
and  must  state  fully  and  precisely,  on  what  day,  and  in 
what  week  of  the  term,  the  absence  occurred,  from  what 
exercises,  and  for  what  reason.  The  Student  will  also 
be  expected  to  state  with  particularity,  such  circumstan- 
ces as  may  tend  to  show  the  validity  of  the  excuse.  If 
this  regulation  be  not  observed,  or  there  be  good  reason 
to  believe  that  the  excuse  alleged  is  unfounded  in  fact, 
the  proper  charge  will  be  made  without  further  notice. 

§ 7.  The  excuses  should  be  handed  to  the  Class  Offi- 
cer, on  Tuesday  of  the  College  week  in  which  the  delin- 
quency took  place,  or  on  the  succeeding  Tuesday.  If  a 
Student  is  in  attendance,  and  does  not  present  his  ex- 
cuse within  the  time  above  allowed,  it  cannot  be  offered 
afterwards. 

§ 8.  When  a Student  is  absent  from  recitation,  and 
has  been  excused,  his  absence  shall  be  entered  upon  the 
merit  roll  as  a failure,  unless  the  omitted  exercise  be  re- 
deemed within  hvo  weeks  after  his  return  to  College  duties. 
The  time  may,  for  good  reasons,  be  enlarged  by  a special 
vote  of  the  Faculty.  The  delinquent  will  be  expected 
to  recite  the  omitted  exercise,  on  the  Monday  next  after 
the  preparation  is  made,  at  such  an  hour  as  may  be  con- 
vient  to  the  officer  who  hears  the  recitation.  When  the 
Student  is  ready  to*  recite  such  exercise,  he  must  com- 
municate that  fact  to  -the  teacher,  without  waiting  to  be 
called  upon. 

§ 9.  Four  members  only  of  any  Society  can  be  ex- 
cused from  College  duties,,  to  attend  as  delegates  at 
Society  meetings  held  at  other  places. 


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CHAPTER  VIII. 

OF  THE  LOCATION  OF  STUDENTS  AND  DAMAGES  TO  ROOMS,  &C. 

§ 1.  On  the  last  week  of  the  third  term,  there  shall 
be  a general  choice  of  rooms,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Locating  Officer.  This  choice  shall  be  made  in  the  order 
of  the  several  classes,  beginning  with  the  Senior.  The 
right  of  choice  is  determined  by  lot,  and  Students  are 
required  to  draw  lots  in  pairs. 

§ 2.  To  all  Students  who  enter  College  after  this 
general  choice,  rooms  shall  be  assigned  by  the  Locating 
Officer. 

§ 3.  After  rooms  have  once  been  chosen  and  assign- 
ed, there  shall  be  no  changes  without  the  consent  of  the 
Locating  Officer. 

§ 4.  The  rooms  are  subject  at  all  times,  to  be  visited 
by  any  member  of  the  Faculty,  and  may  be  entered  by 
him  at  discretion. 

§ 7.  Whenever  any  damage  is  committed  in  any 
private  room,  the  same  shall  be  repaired  at  the  expense 
of  the  occupants,  unless  they  shall  show  good  reasons 
why  they  should  not  be  held  responsible. 

CHAPTER  IX. 

OF  THE  PAYMENT  OF  BILLS. 

It  is  provided  by  a resolution  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  : 

1.  That  no  student  shall  be  permitted  to  enter  on  a 
second,  or  any  succeeding  term,  until  he  shall  have  paid, 
or  secured  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Treasurer,  the  fees 
of  the  preceding  Terra. 


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2.  That  no  Student  can  have  an  honorable  dismission 
from  this  College,  or  certificate  of  his  previous  attend- 
ance in  it,  until  all  his  bills  are  paid  or  satisfactorily 
secured. 

3.  That  in  extreme  cases,  a Student  whose  circum- 
stances render  it  necessary,  and  who  shall  present  satis- 
factory testimonials  of  that  fact  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, if  he  is  a worthy  member  of  College  and  his  under- 
graduate course  is  Completed  in  this  Institution,  can  have 
his  bills  for  tuition  remitted.  The  application  must  be 
made  inwriting  to  the  President  at  the  opening  of  the 
term,  and  if  approved  by  him,  will  be  presented  with 
the  testimonials  to  the  Executive  Committee  for  their 
action. 


CHAPTER  X. 

OF  THE  LIBRARY. 

§ 1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Librarian  to  take 
good  care  of  all  the  books  and  other  property  belonging 
to  the  Library ; to  keep  a full  and  accurate  catalogue  of 
the  same ; to  attend  at  the  Library  room  at  least  twice 
in  each  week,  during  College  terms,  for  receiving  and 
loaning  books  ; to  register  the  titles  of  all  books  drawn 
and  the  name  of  the  borrower ; to  report  at  the  close  of 
each  term,  to  the  Treasurer,  a list  of  all  fines  incurred 
by  a violation  of  the  regulations  of  the  Library ; to 
carefully  examine  the  whole  Library  at  the  close  of 
every  Collegiate  year ; and  to  present  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  or  their  Committee,  a report  in  writing  of  the 
results  of  such  examination. 

§ 2.  The  Library  shall  be  open  for  the  delivery  and 


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return  of  books,  on  Tuesday  and  Friday  of  each  week, 
during  College  terms,  from  12  to  1 o’clock. 

§ 3.  The  Trustees,  Faculty,  Graduates  and  Under- 
graduates of  the  College,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  use  of  ^ 
the  Library  without  expense. 

§ 4.  No  Book  shall  be  taken  from  the  Library  of  the 
College  without  the  knowledge  and  presence  of  the 
Librarian;  and  no  person  except  an  officer  of  College, 
shall  have  more  than  three  volumes  out  at  one  time. 

§ 5.  No  person  except  an  officer  of  College,  shall 
retain  a book  longer  than  three  weeks,  and  no  book  can 
be  renewed  to  any  graduate  or  under-graduate,  unless  it 
be  brought  to  the  Library, 

§ 6.  All  books  drawn  by  graduates  and  under- 
graduates, must  be  returned  to  the  Library  on  the  Friday 
preceding  the  close  of  the  Fall  and  Winter  terms  ; and 
all  books  whatsoever  annually,  on  or  before  the  Saturday 
preceding  commencement. 

§ 7.  Every  Student  who  detains  a book  from  the  Li- 
brary, contrary  to  the  above  rules|’shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine  of  five  cents  for  every  week’s  'detention. 

§ 8.  If  any  book  borrowed  from  the  Library,  be  in- 
jured or  lost,  the  Librarian  shall  make  report  of  it  to  the 
Treasurer,  who  shall  oblige  the  borrower  to  replace  it 
with  one  of  equal  value,  and  if  such  volume  be  part  of 
a set,  the  borrower  shall  be  obliged  to  replace  the  whole 
set;  and  until  this  be  done,  he  shall  not  be  allowed  to 
borrow  any  other  book. 

§ 9.  The  Librarian  shall  have  power  to  designate 
and  retain  in  the  Library,  such  books  and  articles  of 
value,  as  in  his  opinion  ought  not  be  loaned. 


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CHAPTER  XII. 

OF  DELINQUENCIES  AND  EXCUSES-OF  OFFENCES  AND  THEIR 
PUNISHMENTS. 

1st.  Of  Delinquencies. — A.  Where  a Student  fails 
to  attend  to  his  College  duties,  without  a satisfactory 
excuse,  he  receives  Marks  upon  the  College  record., 

B.  The  way  in  which  these  Marks  may  be  incurred, 
is  as  follows : 

Absence  from  Recitation,  Prayers,  or  from  any  Rhe- 


torical exercise,  or  miscellaneous  reading  in  the  same, 
is  marked  .......  2 

Tardiness  at  any  such  exercise,  is  marked  . 1 

Absence  from  room  in  the  hours  of  study,  is  marked  2 
Failure  in  Recitation,  is  marked  1 

Failure  in  Debate,  Composition  or  Declamation,  is 
marked  ........  4 

Absence  from  public  worship  on  the  Sabbath,  or 
reading  in  the  same,  is  marked  ...  5 


In  all  cases  where  it  is  practicable,  the  excuse  must 
be  rendered  before  the  delinquency  occurs.  The  follow- 
ing excuses  are  in  no  case  received : 

Failure  to  hear  the  bell. 

Distance  from  College. 

Company,  whether  from  out  of  town  or  not,  unless  by 
a special  vote  of  the  Faculty. 

Time  occupied  in  preparing  for  another  College  exer- 
cise. 

C.  Each  officer  shall  retain  in  his  own  hands,  his  ac- 
count of  delinquencies  for  one  week,  and  after  they  have 
been  reported  and  entered  upon  the  College  record,  they 


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shall  not  be  removed  except  by  a special  vote  of  the 
Faculty. 

D.  When  the  marks  thus  incurred  by  the  Student, 
and  entered  on  the  record,  amount  to  ten,  he  shall  be 
notified  by  his  Class  Officer.  When  they  amount  to 
twenty,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a warning,  and  shall  be 
called  before  the  Faculty  to  show  cause  why  it  should 
not  be  given.  Notice  of*  every  warning  shall  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  parent  or  guardian.  Successive  warnings 
shall  be  given  for  every  subsequent  accumulation  of 
ten  marks  during  the  same  term.  Where  less  than 
twenty  marks  are  incurred  in  any  one  term,  ten  are 
removed  at  the  close  of  the  term,  and  the  balance  go 
into  the  account  for  the  succeeding  term. 

E.  Whenever  a Student  becomes  habitually  irrregular, 
and  appears  not  to  be  securing  the  objects  of  his  con- 
nection with  the  College,  though  it  be  in  consequence  of 
sickness  or  other  causes  usually  received  as  excuses, 
notice  of  the  same  shall  be  communicated  to  the  parent 
or  guardian  by  letter,  and  if  the  Faculty  are  convinced 
that  such  excuses  have  been  frivolous  or  feigned,  they  may 
require  such  parent  to  withdraw  the  Student  from  Col- 
lege. The  same  course  may  be  taken,  when  in  any  case 
it  appears  that  it  is  no  longer  useful  for  the  Student  to 
remain  in  College,  or  that  his  example  has  become  inju- 
rious to  his  fellow  Students,  even  though  he  be  not  guilty 
of  any  acts  punishable  by  suspension. 

F.  On  the  day  of  the  State  election,  Thanksgiving 
day,  Feb.  22d,  and  4th  of  July,  the  duties  of  the  Col- 
lege are  suspended,  and  the  classes  excused  from  their 
ordinary  exercises.  After  these  legal  holidays,  the 
morning  recitation,  (but  not  the  morning  prayers,)  of 
the  following  day  shall  be  omitted.  After  special  holi- 


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days  granted  by  the  Faculty,  the  usual  exercises  of  the 
following  morning  will  be  held. 

2d.  Of  Offences. — The  Students  in  this  Institution, 
are  expected  to  manifest  in  speech  and  action,  all  prop- 
er respect  and  obedience  to  the  Government  of  the  Col- 
lege ; a gentlemanly  deportment  toward  each  other ; and 
in  all  their  conduct,  a practical  compliance  with  the  dic- 
tates of  morality  and  the  laws  of  the  land. 

§ 1.  In  addition  to  these  general  rules  the  following 
things  are  particularlarly  prohibited. 

1.  The  keeping  or  using  fire  arms  or  gunpowder; 
kindling  fires  in  the  College  yard  or  near  the  College 
buildings,  and  use  of  fire-works  of  every  kind. 

2.  The  use  of  ardent  spirits,  and  intoxication  from 
any  cause. 

3.  Injury  to  College  buildings  or  fences. 

4.  Improper  deportment  towards  citizens  and  injury 
to  their  property. 

5.  Boarding  in  any  place  where  a bar  is  kept. 

8.  The  circulation  of  burlesque  schemes  or  handbills 
at  any  of  the  public  exhibitions  of  the  College. 

7.  And  in  general,  any  violation  of  the  rules  of  good 
order  and  propriety,  whether  in  the  hours  of  study  or 
not,  may  be  charged  with  marks  or  warnings,  as  may 
accord  with  the  judgment  of  the  Faculty. 

8.  Ordinary  absences  from  College  duties,  without 
excuse,  are  charged  on  the  College  record,  as  before 
stated.  But  absence  by  concert  or  combination  with  oth- 
ers, is  deemed  a College  offence,  and  punishable  by  a 
warning  or  warnings,  as  the  case  may  be. 

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§ 2.  The  penalties  consequent  on  a non-compliance 
with  the  rules  of  the  College,  are  a series  of  warnings, 
five  in  number,  preparatory  to  the  separation  of  the 
offender  from  College — his  separation  taking  place  on 
the  giving  of  the  sixth. 

§ 3.  For  offences  requiring  more  than  a single  warn- 
ing, the  offender  may  be  placed  on  any  part  of  the  scale, 
or  dismissed  at  once,  if  the  nature  of  the  offence  require  it. 

§ 4.  Every  warning  is  accompanied  with  a letter  to 
the  parent  or  guardian. 

§ 5.  Unexceptionable  deportment  and  regularity  dur- 
ing one  term,  remove  one  warning  from  the  record. 

§ 6.  No  person  who  has  five  warnings  standing  against 
him  on  the  College  books,  is  entitled  to  a dismission  of 
any  kind  ; if  he  have  a less  number  than  five,  he  may 
have  a dismission,  but  not  an  honorable  one. 

§ 7.  After  a Student  has  been  suspended  from  College, 
he  may  after  the  lapse  of  one  term,  unless  a shorter 
period  is  fixed,  apply  for  readmission,  whereupon  the 
Faculty  may  in  their  discretion,  receive  him  or  not. 
Satisfactory  testimonials  as  to  scholarship  and  conduct 
during  the  tinje  of  suspension,  will  be  required,  and  the 
number  of  marks  fixed,  which  shall  still  remain  on  the 
College  books. 

§8.  All  damage  done  to  property,  must  be  paid  for  by 
him  who  commits  it,  if  known  ; and  for  wilful  damage,  a 
fine  of  twice  the  amount  shall  be  assessed  in  addition. 
If  not  known,  it  may  be  assessed  upon  the  whole  body 
of  Students. 


HAMILTON  COLLEGE 


AND  THE 


YORK 


SYNOD 


The  attention  of  the  ministers  and  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  Churches  and  Congregations  in  the  Synod 
of  New  York,  is  earnestly  solicited  to  the  following 
action  of  that  body,  taken  during  its  session  in  Utica, 
October  20,  1882  : 


ACTION  OF  SYNOD. 


‘•The  Synod  of  New  York,  at  its  first  convention,  calls  the  special 
attention  of  all  its  ministers,  and  the  officers  and  members  of  all  its 
Churches,  to  the  relations  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  to  the  cause 
of  higher  education.  In  the  provisions  we  have  made  for  the  Christian 
education  of  our  sons  and  daughters  in  the  academy  and  college, 
we  are  behind  the  other  great  denominations  with  which  we  are 
accustomed  to  co-operate  in  Christian  effort.  For  the  special  work  of 
ministerial  training,  the  appliances  that  we  possess  as  a church  put 
us  in  the  very  first  rank.  For  that  higher  education  which  is  not 
professional  or  ministerial,  we  are  altogether  in  the  rear. 

The  universities  and  colleges  in  this  land  that  may  in  any  sense 
be  called  Presbyterian,  only  number  13,  and  have  an  annual  income 
of  but  $212,000.  What  are  these  in  comparison  of  the  26  col- 
leges connected  with  the  Congregational  Church,  or  the  31  con- 
nected with  the  Baptist  Church,  or  the  still  larger  number,  37,  con- 
nected with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  ? And  in  this  neglect 
of  higher  education,  the  Presbyterian  Church  has  been  untrue  both 


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to  her  doctrine  and  history.  Calvinism  has  always  had  a strong 
affinity  with  learning,  and  after  the  planting  of  Presbyterianism  in 
the  soil  of  this  new  continent,  not  more  than  two  decades  of  years 
passed  before  it  established  for  itself  a college. 

The  recognition  of  our  neglect  as  a Church  of  Christ,  in  these 
days  of  higher  education,  and  the  attempt  which  is  now  being  made 
of  stimulating  inquiry  and  effort  to  remedy  this  defect,  are  among 
the  most  promising  signs  of  the  times.  “ In  view  of  the  patent 
fact,”  says  our  last  general  assembly,  “that  by  the  secularizing  of 
academies  and  colleges  the  source  of  supply  for  our  theological 
seminaries  have  been  either  vitiated  or  cut  off,  the  assembly  enjoin 
upon  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  ministry  the  urgent  duty  of  en- 
dowing and  building  up  the  Presbyterian  academies  and  colleges 
already  existing,  and  of  wisely  planting,  endowing  and  fostering 
others  as  they  become  needed,  in  order  to  avert  and  make  provis- 
ions against,  the  impending  dearth  of  candidates  for  the  ministry, 
and  that  the  Presbyterian  Church  may  overtake  its  sister  churches 
in  the  work  of  Christian  education,  and  regain  the  place  of  suprem- 
acy of  which  it  is  entitled,  by  its  grand  system  of  doctrine  and  its 
equally  grand  history.” 

Your  committee,  in  quoting  this  action  of  the  assembly,  desire  to 
add  their  full  approval  of  all  the  sentiments  it  expresses,  and  also 
the  hope  that  this  Synod  will  make  this  action  its  own. 

Your  committee  are  also  pleased  to  know  that  the  assembly 
appointed  upon  this  subject  a special  committee,  and  that  its  mem- 
bers were  urged  to  give  early  and  earnest  attention  to  the  important 
subject  committed  to  their  care.  The  college  society,  as  it  is  called, 
among  our  Congregational  brethren,  fostering  the  feeble  and  strug- 
gling educational  institutions  of  that  faith  in  every  part  of  the  land, 
contributed  during  the  past  year  very  efficient  aid  to  ten  dif- 
ferent colleges,  and  during  the  thirty-eight  years  of  its  existence,  has 
brought  up  other  institutions  of  learning  to  the  point  of  entire  self- 
support.  The  entire  sum  contributed  by  this  Society  to  Collegiate 
education  is  $1,352,011.73.  The  number  of  Institutions  aided  is 
twenty-nine.  Why  may  not  our  great  Presbyterian  Church  institute  a 
charity  that  in  the  same  field  will  be  equally  efficient  ? The  special 
recommendation  on  this  subject  that  your  Committee  would  make 
to  the  Synod,  is  as  follows  : 

The  six  Synods  into  which  the  ministers  and  Churches  of  this 
State  were  formerly  divided,  and  which  by  the  Assembly’s  act  of  con- 
solidation are  now  embraced  in  the  Synod  of  New  York,  having  all 
united  in  the  earnest  recommendation  of  Hamilton  College,  to  the  con- 


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fidence  and  liberality  of  their  churches  in  the  effort  to  secure  an  addi- 
tion to  its  endowment  of  $500,000,  and  upon  that  event  to  become 
more  closely  related  to  them,  in  accordance  with  an  official  act  of  its 
Board  of  Trustees,  this  Synod  repeats  and  makes  its  own,  those 
recommendations,  and  pleased  to  learn  of  the  gratifying  progress 
that  has  already  been  made  in  securing  such  an  endowment,  ex- 
presses its  earnest  desire  and  hope  that  the  whole  sum  may  be 
speedily  realized. 

And  to  this  end  the  committee  recommend  that  one  minister  and 
one  elder,  the  elder  to  be  appointed  by  the  minister,  from  each  of 
the  Presbyteries  connected  with  the  Synod,  be  appointed  to  cooper- 
ate with  the  officers  of  the  college,  in  their  efforts  to  secure  this  en- 
dowment. 

The  Presbyterial  Committee  thus  provided  for  shall  be  as  follows  : 

Albany,  John  McC.  Holmes,  D.  D.;  Binghamton,  G.  P.  Nichols, 
D.D.;  Boston,  C.  C.  Wallace,  D.  D.;  Brooklyn,  J.  G.  Butler,  D.D.; 
Buffalo,  R S.  Green  ; Cayuga,  C.  C.  Hemenway  ; Champlain,  C.  S. 
Richardson  ; Chemung,  C.  C.  Carr  ; Columbia,  George  A.  Howard, 
D.  D. ; Genesee,  C.  H.  Dibble;  Genesee  Valley,  David  Winters; 
Geneva,  J.  W.  Jacks;  Hudson,  J.  R.  Lewis;  Long  Island,  William 
H.  Littell;  Lyons,  W.  H.  Bates;  Nassau,  L.  Lampman ; New 
York,  Howard  Crosby,  D D.  LL.  D. ; Niagara,  J.  S.  Bacon ; 
North  River,  Francis  B.  Wheeler,  D.  D.;  Otsego,  H.  W.  Swinerton, 
Ph.  D.;  Rochester,  C.  E.  Robinson,  D.  D.;  St.  Lawrence,  L.  M. 
Miller,  D.  D. ; Steuben,  J.  M.  Platt;  Syracuse,  H.  H.  Stebbins ; 
Troy,  Stephen  Bush,  D.  D.;  Utica,  Thomas  J.  Brown,  D.  D.; 
Westchester,  Nelson  Phraner,  D.  D. 

At  any  joint  meeting  of  these  Presbyterial  Committees  that  may 
be  called,  eleven  shall  be  a quorum,  competent  to  transact  all 
business  pertaining  to  their  appointment.” 

ADDITIONAL  RESOLUTION. 

To  this  action  of  the  Synod,  reported  by  its  Stand- 
ing Committee  on  Education,  the  Synod  unanimously 
added,  as  an  earnest  and  spontaneous  expression  of 
its  deep  interest  on  this  subject,  the  following  reso- 
lution : 

Resolved,  That  all  the  ministers  of  this  Synod  be  requested  to 
present  the  interests  of  Hamilton  College  to  their  respective  con- 
gregations on  the  first  Sabbath  after  the  day  of  prayer  for  colleges, 
and  take  a special  collection  in  its  behalf. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  MOVEMENT. 

That  the  meaning  of  this  action,  and  its  historical 
reference  may  be  understood,  the  following  brief 
statement  is  subjoined  : 

A conference  of  Christian  gentlemen,  to  consider 
the  relations  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  to  “ Higher 
and  especially  to  Collegiate  Education,”  was  held  in 
the  City  of  Utica,  on  the  31st  of  March,  1879. 

The  conference  was  one  of  deep  interest,  and  re- 
sulted in  the  appointing  of  a Committee  to  call  a more 
general  meeting,  to  be  held  in  Syracuse,  on  the  21st 
and  2 2d  of  April. 

At  this  meeting,  after  much  discussion  and  delibera- 
tion, it  was  thought  that  the  end  so  much  desired, 
could  better  be  accomplished  by  the  utilizing  of  some 
existing  collegiate  institution,  than  by  the  establish- 
ment of  a new  one  ; and  hence  it  was 

Resolved , 1.  That  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Hamilton  College  at 
Clinton,  Oneida  county,  N.  Y.,  be  respectfully  requested  to  consider 
the  practicability  of  such  a change  in  the  charter  of  the  College, 
whether  by  a provision  which  shall  empower  the  Synods  to  fill  va- 
cancies in  the  Board  as  fast  as  they  may  occur,  until  two-thirds  of 
the  Board  are  made  to  represent,  and  thereafter  to  continue  to  repre- 
sent, the  Synods ; or,  by  some  other  provision  which  shall  more 
clearly  identify  the  institution  with  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
render  endowments  made  in  the  interests  of  said  church  inalienable  ; 
and,  if  found  practicable,  that  such  change  be  secured  by  applica- 
tion to  the  Regents  of  the  Unversity. 

Resolved,  2.  That  in  the  event  of  such  a change  in  the  charter  as 
is  contemplated  in  the  above  resolution,  an  effort  be  immediately 
inaugurated  by  our  ministers  and  churches,  to  raise  Five  Hundred 
Thousand  Dollars  for  Hamilton  College. 

Resolved , 3.  That  the  Rev.  Dr.  Darling,  of  Albany,  and  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Johnson,  of  Auburn,  be  a Committee  to  bring  this  matter  before 
the  Trustees  of  Hamilton  College,  at  their  next  meeting. 


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